he finally comes out swinging

thanks to ruby for this... i didn't watch any of the RNC, and also hadn't heard about kerry's remarks last night after the convention ended:

"I'm not going to have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and by those who have misled the nation into Iraq."

"Misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead this nation. Doing nothing while this nation loses millions of jobs makes you unfit to lead this nation. Letting 45 million Americans go without health care makes you unfit to lead this nation. Letting the Saudi royal family control our energy costs makes you unfit to lead this nation. Handing out billions of government contracts to Halliburton while you're still on their payroll makes you unfit. That's the record of George Bush and Dick Cheney, and it's not going to change."

i don't want this to become a political blog (primarily because people like ruby, todd, and the fine folks at americablog do it so well), but i do want to say that i'm encouraged to hear kerry is finally swinging a little harder.

sock it to him, man.